<p>Today we are featuring two interviews from the <a href="https://conscient.ca/" target="_self">Conscient</a> podcast series. Conscient is produced by Claude Schryer in Ottawa. It revolves around conversations with artists about the climate emergency. The show includes an extensive collection of interviews and discussions with a diverse range of artists that are all tackling the climate emergency in their own unique and distinctive ways.&nbsp;</p><p>The majority of the show will feature a longer interview that Claude did with <a href="https://www.joansullivanphotography.com/" target="_self">Joan Sullivan</a> for episode 96 of Conscient. Joan is a photo artist in Rimouski Québec who has devoted her work to confronting the realities of climate change. In her view nobody is exempt from having a role to play in the energy transition. In terms of energy and consumption, the world is currently in a liminal space between what was and what lies ahead.&nbsp;</p><p>Making Waves concludes with a conversation between Claude Schryer and <a href="https://tina-pearson.com/" target="_self">Tina Pearson</a>. It was recorded for episode 220 of Conscient in September 2024. Tina Pearson asks, "what is art anyway?" How can artists use their talents to allow people to listen more deeply - and also to leave time and space to breathe and consider.&nbsp;</p><p>In between the interviews we will listen to the soundwalk composition <a href="https://smolicki.com/intertidalroom.html" target="_self">Intertidal Room</a> by Jaceck Smolicki. Recorded at slack tide in the Vancouver harbour at Stanley Park, Smolicki’s composition contrasts the linear rhythms of industrial sea cargo with the cyclical rhythms of the water lapping at shore.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art is produced by <a href="https://naisa.ca/" target="_self">New Adventures in Sound Art</a>'s Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective.</p>

<p>On today’s show we feature sound art works by two Indonesian sound artists. The hour will conclude with selections from Gardika Gigih’s <em>Mikrokosmos</em> series of works, but the majority of the show will feature a recording of a recent <a href="https://youtu.be/hQRqU-Kb3jo" target="_self">performance by Rani Jambak</a> that was recorded on September 20, 2025 at NAISA in South River.</p><p>In last month’s episode <a href="https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/zsn746" target="_self">we heard an interview with Rani Jambak</a><em>Kincia Aia</em>. She talked to apè alliermo from the VenusFest about the <em>Kincia Aia</em>, which is an electronic music controller adapted from a traditional North Sumatran water wheel. In the performance she uses the <em>Kincia Aia</em> to control her electronic and soundscape recordings which are complemented by Jambak's vocal and flute performances. Part of the adaptation of the <em>Kincia Aia</em> for indoor performance contexts requires running the water wheel on a motor and you will hear some of that in the recording.</p><p>Gardika Gigih is an Indonesian composer, pianist, and soundscape researcher. He composed the <a href="https://gardikagigih.bandcamp.com/track/mikrokosmos-1-2-binaural" target="_self">Mikrokosmos series</a> while in residence at the Abbaye de Noirlac in France during the autumn of 2023.&nbsp;&nbsp;The pieces are a reflection of humanity's relation to nature during the current climate crisis. Gardika Gigih composed the music in collaboration with natural soundscape recordings made by the French audio-naturalist, Fernand Deroussen and recordings of Hye-Ohn Park playing the Daegum, a Korean flute. Mikrokosmos in this way explores sonic dialogues across different cultures, to find common ground in a fragmented world.</p><p>This monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. </p> <p><a href="https://naisa.ca/" target="_blank">https://naisa.ca/</a></p>

<p>apè aliermo from <a href="https://venusfest.net/" target="_self">VenusFest</a> in Toronto interviews sound artist Rani Jambak. Jambak’s music is influenced by the many traditions and musical cultures that can be found in Minangkabau and her birthplace in Medan, Indonesia.&nbsp; In the last 5 years her main focus has been to re-interpret in musical form Minangkabau philosophy and ancestral knowledge which includes creating her instrument based on a traditional water wheel with a series of wooden pestles, the Kincia Aia.</p><p>The beginning and end of the episode includes excerpts from Jambak's 2022 performance <a href="https://youtu.be/78aKfx_yp-U?si=ODftypY2vNtm85LG" target="_self">Malenong (M)ASO</a>. In the performance the sound samples are being manipulated and controlled by the Kincia Aia. In the conversation we will learn more about that instrument and the cultural roots and environmental concerns that drive Jembak’s work.</p><p>Jambak’s music is influenced by the many traditions and musical cultures that can be found in Minangkabau and her birthplace in Medan, Indonesia. Medan is a unique city as it has 8 original ethnic groups which makes it very rich in sound diversity. In the last 5 years her main focus has been to re-interpret in musical form Minangkabau philosophy and ancestral knowledge. Starting from learning the culture and history through its sounds, to creating instruments like the Kincia Aia, and from understanding history through Tambo Alam Minangkabau, a manuscript about the origin of Minangkabau from the early 19th century.</p><p>The interview was recorded prior to a tour to various Ontario and Québec venues taking place in the last two weeks of September, 2025. In the middle of this episode the track Joget Sumatera is heard from Rani Jambak's album <a href="https://yesnowave.bandcamp.com/album/vibra-genetika" target="_self">Vibra Genetika</a>&nbsp;on the <a href="https://yesnowave.com/about/" target="_self">Yes No Wave</a> label.</p><p>Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art is produced by <a href="https://naisa.ca" target="_self">New Adventures in Sound Art</a>'s Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective.</p>

<p>Composer <a href="https://www.annealockwood.com/biography/" target="_self">Annea Lockwood</a> talks about her work with river sounds throughout her 50 plus years of composing. Her sound map installations of the Housatonic, Danube and Hudson Rivers (and others she has made recently) underscore the value of water in shaping life on earth. Rivers not only bring energy, but Lockwood points out that rivers also have an agency of their own. That agency pushes back against the western inclination to want to control and dominate the course of water flow. In the second half of the show we will listen to an excerpt of her piece <a href="https://www.annealockwood.com/compositions/a-sound-map-of-the-housatonic-river/" target="_self">A Sound Map of the Housatonic River</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective.</p> <p><a href="https://naisa.ca/" target="_blank">https://naisa.ca/</a></p>

<p>Does water have a voice? On today’s show we explore that question through listening to underwater sounds and Darren Copeland’s conversation with sound artist Eric Powell. In his sound installation <a href="https://ericpowellart.wordpress.com/voix/" target="_self">la Voix de la riviere</a> Powell modified a rotary telephone and connected it to a live transmission of the Haute Yamaska River in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. He is currently working on a new iteration <a href="https://naisa.ca/projects/voice-of-the-water/" target="_self">Voice of the Water</a> that also uses the rotary phone, but this time to playback sounds of rivers, creaks and lakes located near South River Ontario. To learn more about Eric Powell’s work visit his <a href="https://ericpowellart.wordpress.com/" target="_self">Wordpress site</a> and <a href="https://ericpowell.bandcamp.com/" target="_self">Bandcamp page</a>.</p><p>Making Waves is a one hour program about radio art and sound art and is produced by New Adventures in Sound Art's Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. </p> <p><a href="https://naisa.ca/" target="_blank">https://naisa.ca/</a></p>

<p>This is the first of two episodes about vibro-tactile artworks. These are artworks that are centred in sound, but the sound medium bypasses the cochlea and transmits to listeners directly through their bodies. The first half of the show is a conversation that host Darren Copeland had with Satoshi Morita. Morita is a Japanese sculptor and sound artist based in Germany. He created a number of vibro-tactile works in the mid to late 00's including <em>Sound Capsule</em>, <em>Sonic Helmut</em> and <em>Sonic Suit</em>.&nbsp; He is currently making wooden organ pipes for his piece Primal Response that have some overlaps with vibro-tactile audio.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.sonicspacelabs.com/morita/works/" target="_self">Visit this link</a> to view pictures of Satoshi Morita's sculptures.&nbsp;</p><p>The second half of the show includes a radio documentary made by Dutch sound and media artist Ricardo Huisman that he calls a tactile sound portrait of Toronto. The work was made from a visit to Toronto in 2008 when he presented his installation <em>Super Sonic Sound Scape Shoes</em> at the Deep Wireless Festival. The installation had visitors place their feet inside very large Dutch wooden shoes which had speakers built inside them. Soundscape recordings he made in Toronto would play through the shoes and transmit through the body of the installation visitor. In the documentary Huisman captures the sonic environment of the symposium host site and the conversations he had with other festival participants. <a href="https://www.ricardohuisman.com/tactile-sonic-portrait-toronto/" target="_self">Visit this link</a> to learn more.</p><p>Lastly, WGXC's pledge drive for donations is coming up later in June.&nbsp; Please consider making a donation at&nbsp;<a href="https://wgxc.org/donate/" target="_self">This Link Here</a>.</p>

<p>In this edition of Making Waves we pay tribute to the work of the late Andra McCartney who died in 2019. She was a composer, radio artist, educator, biographer and musicologist active in Canada in the fields of electroacoustic music and soundscape studies.&nbsp; Her colleagues and close friends Hildegard Westerkamp, Wendalyn Bartley and Gayle Young join us in this episode to share their experiences of working with her and spending time with her.</p><p>The show includes excerpts of her radio piece “Waiting Games And Widespread Smoke (feat. Narcy)” which is featured on the <a href="https://naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/#DWCD19" target="_self">Deep Wireless 19 album</a>.&nbsp; &nbsp;That piece describes a train trip Andra McCartney took across Canada during the 2018 wild fires in British Columbia. It was also the last piece she made.&nbsp; &nbsp;The show ends with her radio piece "Learning to Walk" which can be heard on the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/andrasound/learning-to-walk" target="_self">Andrasound</a> soundcloud page.</p><p>Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art is produced by <a href="https://naisa.ca/" target="_blank">New Adventures in Sound Art</a>'s Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. </p>

<p>On today’s show we are going to listen to the long form sound art composition Zand by Dutch sound artist Marieke Van de ven. And after listening that host Darren Copeland will have a conversation with her to learn more about the piece.</p><p>Zand explores sand grains as material, concept and sound. Viewed from different perspectives, the sand grains become a place to explore and wander. A composition of subtle grains to colossal layers of sound and back again. A movement, a duration, a route.</p><p>As a composer and sound artist, Marieke Vande vin likes to zoom in on environmental sounds. The sound of sand is a sonic adventure where texture and associations with the material guides her process. Van de van searches for the meaning of the ordinary in the mundane details of life - and she connects the listener to the origins of the materials she explores.</p><p>The show closes with an excerpt from Black Poplar 86.3 Mhz by American transdisciplinary artist Dann Disciglio.</p><p>Explore the <a href="https://naisa.ca/media-archive/compactdiscs/#DWCD19" target="_self">Deep Wireless 19 compilation album</a>&nbsp;for more information about the works on today's show and for further listening.</p><p><br></p>

<p>On today’s show we listen to two works that capture animals and environments in interesting and unique ways. Both works come from the 19th edition of the Deep Wireless Radio Art Compilation, which is now available on <a href="https://soundcloud.com/naisa/sets/deep-wireless-19-online-album?si=05523a46ef804bf4bb8ab8cc1f997148&amp;utm_source=clipboard&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=social_sharing" target="_self">soundcloud</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>We are going to spend the majority of the show listening to and talking about the multi-species project <em>Pigeon Band</em>, which began with the question: “Do pigeons like music?”&nbsp;</p><p>Two toy synth keyboards were installed on Emmie Tsumara's kitchen window sill, awaiting the daily pigeon visitors. Over several months of practice, the pigeons learned to play the keyboard as they snacked on sunflower seeds. Though each pigeon can be hard to tell apart visually, they each have their own personalities and movements. With those differences they each play a different song.</p><p>The Pigeon Band benefited from the collaboration of many artists, including Blunderspublik, D Badua, Julia Fenn, Charlie Glasspool, Sarah DeCarlo, Polly-Jean Vernon, Veronica Ing, The Burning Hell, Jas Nasty, Chris International, Babe Chorus, Anomalia and Charlie Petch.</p><p>The album was produced by artist, designer and pigeonfluencer Emmie Tsumura and it is mastered by Julia Fenn. I had a conversation with both of them to tell us about Pigeon Band and how it came to be.</p><p>At the end of the show we will go on an electromagnetic hike up Ensign Peak in Salt Lake City with sound artist Matthew Driggs McMurray in his piece <em>Meta-Frequency Field Recording: Salt Lake City // Ensign Peak</em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

<p>Today's episode is from a live performance of Tree Frog Radio by Ben Donoghue that took place on February 1, 2025. Tree Frog Radio in the Northern Gulf Islands is an unique underground FM radio initiative in British Columbia that uses trees as antenna masts for localized radio broadcasts – expanding a rural island community’s boundaries of the possible. In this radio art performance interviews and field recordings about Tree Frog Radio were mixed together using loopers and feedback systems in order to blur the space between audio documentary, drone and noise.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Online listeners experienced a special video feed of the performance while in-person audiences got to wander the NAISA North Media Arts Centre in South River and both listen to the audio on a localized radio broadcast and visit Ben Donoghue in a small studio performing on a modular synthesizer.&nbsp; Following the performance the two audiences joined together in a discussion about the performance and to learn more about Tree Frog Radio from its founders and members who were in attendance. Visit <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@NAISAtube/" target="_self">NAISATube channel</a>&nbsp;for a video version of this radio episode.</p>

<p>On today’s episode of Making Waves we will be listening to “Non-predictable” by Omar Reyna. Afterwards we will talk to Omar about his piece which is included in the soon to be released 19th compilation album from The Deep Wireless Festival. Over the next four episodes of Making Waves we will be featuring artists from Deep Wireless.</p><p>Reyna’s work “Non-predictable” is an exploration of the sounds of turbulence in nature. Do the sounds of wind hitting trees or the tonal colours of moving water have emotions that fluctuate over time? This 45 minute long form piece is arranged in three sections that are approximately 15 minutes each and there is a radiophonic quality stemming from the associative qualities of the sounds of wind, rapids, ravens and breaking glass.</p><p>Omar Reyna is a Mexican-Canadian interdisciplinary artist. He focuses on the intersection of research and the activity of making. And believes that the process of making art while experimenting serves as a form of physical thinking. Much of his artistic practice takes place in the Boreal Forest near Whitehorse, Yukon, where he now lives and works.</p>

<p>On today’s show we will be listening to <em>Lake Composition</em> by Ben McCarthy and April Martin and we will also be talking to them about the piece after we listen to it.</p><p><em>Lake Composition</em> is a work made for video installation but is also appropriate in a radio context. If you are interested in getting an idea of the images in the video work there is a trailer for the piece here:</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/7iPzkKA62BY" target="_self">Lake Composition Trailer</a></p><p><em>Lake Composition</em> includes poetic journal-like text fragments written by Ben McCarthy. His texts reflect on the nature of love in the age of AI and the mystifying beauty of the Georgian Bay shoreline. He asks, “how is AI teaching us about who we are as desiring animals.”&nbsp;&nbsp;The sounds in the piece include field recordings from Georgian Bay, interview fragments, and synthesized and AI generated sounds. There are sounds that derive from April Martin’s ceramic sculptures. You will hear the sculptures clanging together in the water as she casts them out to float along the shore.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>In the final 12 minutes of the show we going to turn our attention back to the Sonic Hugs project. Back in September <a href="https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/3kdd2g" target="_self">we had an interview on Making Waves</a> with curator Colin Black of This Sonic Life. Today we will listen to Berjalan by Claire Pannell and EMBOSOMED by Colin Black.</p>

<p>Mark Timmings and Brady Marks from <a href="http://wetlandproject.com" target="_self">The Wetland Project</a> in British Columbia speak to Host and NAISA Artistic Director Darren Copeland. <em>The Wetland Project</em> is an exploration of a 24-hour field recording of a marsh on Saturna Island (ṮEḴTEḴSEN) made with the assistance of recordist Eric Lamontagne. The reverberant soundscape, featuring birds, frogs and airplanes, has been shared with international audiences since 2015 in the form of slow radio broadcasts, new-media installations and musical performances. An audio-visual version of <em>The Wetland Project</em> will be included in the Water themed edition of the livestream event on Dec 12 called <a href="https://youandiarewaterearthfireairoflifeanddeath.com/project/water-2024" target="_self">You and I Are Water Earth Fire Air Of Life And Death</a>.</p><p>Making Waves is one hour program about radio art and sound art, and is produced by <a href="https://naisa.ca/" target="_new">New Adventures in Sound Art</a>'s Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective.</p>

<p>How can video games be a tool for exploring machine hums and drones? That is one of the subjects we are exploring today on Making Waves with host Darren Copeland. Colin Frank is a percussionist, composer and media artist from Ottawa and based currently in Huddersfield UK. In his installation <em>Soundmap of Sherbrooke’s Machine Songs</em> the gallery visitor uses a joystick and track ball to remix field recordings of back alley machine drones from Sherbrooke Quebec in order to uncover the hidden sonic beauty of industrial urban environments. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@naisatube" target="_self">Watch NAISATube</a>&nbsp;for the video version of this episode and to see the installation. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@TellerUlamDesign" target="_self">Visit Colin Frank's YouTube channel</a> to watch performances of <em>Noise Fields</em> by Colin Frank and <em>a sound world for small things</em> by Colin Frank and Sam Gillies.&nbsp;</p><p>Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art, and is produced by <a href="https://naisa.ca/" target="_new">New Adventures in Sound Art</a>'s Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective.<br></p>

<p>Today’s episode highlights the <em>Sonic Hugs</em> collection curated by Colin Black. <em>Sonic Hugs</em> features nine Australian composers and sound artists that were invited to create original radio art pieces that try to connect the ideas of "Sonic" and "Hug".&nbsp; I discussed with Colin Black his motives and interests in starting the project and his impressions of the outcomes and responses that emerged. He also elaborated on his experiences making and producing radio art in Australia and the impact programs like <em>The Listening Room</em> had on the direction of his work. All of the pieces in the <em>Sonic Hugs</em> collection can be heard on the <a href="https://thissoniclife.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-hugs" target="_self">Bandcamp site for the project</a>. In this program we will listen to Eve Klein’s <em>Mantra of Enfolding</em>, Ros Bandt’s <em>Sonic Hugs</em>, Cat Hope’s <em>7 Options</em> and Jim Denley’s <em>Mixmaster Troposphere</em>.</p><p>This monthly one hour program is about radio art and sound art, and is produced by <a href="https://naisa.ca/" target="_new">New Adventures in Sound Art</a>'s Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. </p>

<p>On today’s show we feature multi-disciplinary artist Christine Charette and her performance <em>Roots that Braid Themselves</em>. Christine Charette lives in the Almaguin Highlands region of Ontario. Her performance took place outdoors on July 18 at Warbler’s Roost in South River during World Listening Day. In her performance she had masks, paper sculptures and lines of text displayed on tree branches and stumps. On an elevated platform there was a weathering upright piano that she played along with various effects pedals. In the conversation she reflected on the branching and roots themes in her performance as well as about other points of inspiration for her work.</p><p>Christine Charette wrote the following about Roots that Braid Themselves:</p><p>"From the world of Electroacoustic Music and Musique Concrète, I explore the profound influence of forest biomes and the symbiotic enchanted world it hides underground. I use recorded sounds from life, distilled through a sampler, and weave them with the sounds of piano, synth. Drawing my sounds intuitively, I allow the forest and its underground networks to inhale and exhale through me, resonating in their vibration, and translating their Affect. I create a space that transports the listener to where worlds of microbial seed banks exist, stardust and roots that braid themselves into stories, where the belly of the Earth speaks."</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/kcwLARmnNQ8?si=DBpjAdFQp3471t-S" target="_self">Click Here to See a Video of the performance featured on today's show.</a></p><p>Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art, and is produced by <a href="https://naisa.ca/" target="_new">New Adventures in Sound Art</a>'s Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective.<br></p>

<p>This episode of Making Waves reflects on the life and work of Susan Frykberg (1954-2023). It begins with a radiophonic series of pieces she made called <em>The Audio Birth</em> <em>Project</em> and features an interview with two of Susan's closest Canadian colleagues Jim Montgomery and Tina Pearson. They reflect on Susan's life in Canada, the barriers she overcame and the impact she had on experimental sound art in Canada. The pieces heard on the show are from her <em></em><a href="https://earsaymusic.bandcamp.com/album/astonishing-sense" target="_self"><em xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">Astonishing Sense</em> CD</a> released on the Earsay label in Vancouver.</p><p>Making Waves is a monthly one hour program about radio art and sound art, and is produced by <a href="https://naisa.ca/" target="_new">New Adventures in Sound Art</a>'s Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. </p>

<p>On today's show we listen to spring soundscapes from the region of Canada where "Making Waves" is produced. This year and last year, residents of the Almaguin Highlands region in Northern Ontario had the opportunity to place sound recorders out overnight in order to share the soundscape that is familiar to them. The Almaguin Highlands is a collection of rural villages with populations under 2,000 people that are locating North of Huntsville and South of North Bay in what is often referred to as the Near North. Last year in May on "Making Waves," we featured some of these recordings, and on today's show, we will listen to a new collection recorded these past two months.&nbsp;</p><p>Featured today are recordings made at the following locations: Old Highway Road in Magnetawan on April 9 at 7:20 a.m.; the village of South River on April 14 at 6:30 a.m.; Bray Lake in Machar on May 19 at 4:15 a.m.; Chapman Strong Road in Strong on May 20 at 1:10 a.m.; and Highway 534 in Powassan on May 31 at 5:00 a.m.</p><p>This monthly one hour program is about radio art and sound art, and is produced by <a href="https://naisa.ca/" target="_new">New Adventures in Sound Art</a>'s Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. </p>

<p>This episode features pieces by Martin Rodriguez, Kat Estacio, Dale Bazar, and AJ Cornell that convey emotions and meaning through the ethereal world of electronic sound and electromagnetic energy. Together we will listen and talk about their pieces -responding to what resonates and stirs the imagination. And we will learn about the context in which the pieces were made.</p> <p>This monthly one hour program is about radio art and sound art, and is produced by <a href="https://naisa.ca/" target="_new">New Adventures in Sound Art</a>'s Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. </p>

<p>On today’s show we listen to three radio art pieces: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/naisa/neurotransmits-claudio-de-pina?in=naisa/sets/deep-wireless-18-online-album&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing" target="_new">Neurotransmits</a> by Cláudio De Pina, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/naisa/string-pulse-bekah-simms?in=naisa/sets/deep-wireless-18-online-album&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing" target="_new">String Pulse</a> by Bekah Simms, and <a href="https://soundcloud.com/naisa/london-punch-keith-de-mendonca?in=naisa/sets/deep-wireless-18-online-album&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing" target="_new">London Punch</a> by Keith de Mendonca. All three artists join host Darren Copeland to talk about their pieces and offer comments about each other’s work. Thematically the pieces explore sounds associated with radio and electromagnetic waves and reflect approaches to evoking images and associations without necessarily using words.</p> <p>This monthly one hour program is about radio art and sound art, and is produced by <a href="https://naisa.ca/" target="_new">New Adventures in Sound Art</a>'s Artistic Director Darren Copeland in South River, Ontario, Canada. The show features Canadian, US, and international artists creating sound-based media art. It focuses on the techniques, processes, and motivations of the artists it features as well as individuals supporting the field through dissemination and curatorial activities. The show is a snapshot of what is happening in sound-based media art in the here and now from a northern perspective. </p>